Chapter Summaries

Sashado revealed that his altered Host Body was an experiment combining modern genetic research with his Nen Ability, which had produced creatures with unusual powers. Ian’s enthusiastic questions and praise left Sashado wondering whether the brat was mocking him.

• Ian asked why Sashado’s Host Body looked so different, and Sashado explained that he had adapted to the modern era and experimented with genetic mutation.
• Sashado said the strange creatures were born under the influence of his ability, alarming the Hunters who feared the consequences of uncontrolled mutations.
• Ian praised Sashado and asked about the creatures’ survival rate, considering the value of an ability that could produce beneficial mutations.
• Sashado found Ian’s curiosity irritating and wondered whether the brat was mocking him.

Ian and Sashado clashed after Sashado’s Nen attack mutated a tree and Ian fired back with the Planet Buster. When Sashado revealed a cavern full of mutant creatures and hinted at a new creation, Ian brought out the White Stone Crab to show him a rare creature of his own.

• Sashado slashed at Ian with a green Nen blade, and the attack caused parts of a tree to mutate into mushrooms and grass.
• Netero told the Hunters that Sashado’s mutation effect seemed to depend on chance, while Ian recognized it as a Specialization Nen ability.
• Ian fired the Planet Buster at Sashado, blasting open the cave and exposing a huge sinkhole crowded with mutant creatures.
• Sashado admitted he had been close to succeeding at something, and Ian encouraged him to continue his experiment.
• Ian opened the Miniature World Refrigerator and summoned the White Stone Crab, calling it his invincible king crab.

Ian summoned the enormous White Stone Crab and challenged Sashado to pit his engineered creature against it. Sashado brought out a rapidly moving giant mantis, but the chapter left its strength overshadowed by the crab’s overwhelming size.

• Ian summoned the White Stone Crab, stunning the Hunters and prompting Netero and Zeno to suspect it came from the Dark Continent.
• Ian climbed onto the crab and challenged Sashado to produce the creature he had made.
• The crab raised its gigantic claw, and Zeno warned everyone that its impact could unleash a deadly shock wave.
• Cat Teacher considered fighting the crab but held back because it belonged to Ian.
• Sashado summoned a three-meter-tall mantis, which Netero recognized as a fast, aggressive biological weapon capable of producing offspring.

The Ise Mantis, which Sashado had mutated into a powerful creature, faced off against Ian’s White Stone Crab. Ian ordered the crab to attack, and the mantis charged at its descending claw.

• Jikeya explained that the Ise Mantis had once been classified as an A-rank threat and exterminated, but this one had clearly mutated.
• Sashado considered the mantis a formidable creation and hoped to breed more of them, though Ian’s White Stone Crab had shaken his plans.
• Ian dismissed the mantis as no match for the crab, and Sashado admitted they would only know after the fight.
• Ian ordered the White Stone Crab to strike Sashado, who chose to watch without yielding.
• The Ise Mantis darted upward toward the crab’s descending claw.

Ian watched the Ise Mantis attack the White Stone Crab, whose nearly diamond-hard claw withstood thousands of slashes until the mantis’s blades broke. As the mantis fled while protecting its abdomen, Ian realized it was a mother and stopped Little White from striking it.

• The Ise Mantis attacked the White Stone Crab’s descending claw, but its slashes could not pierce the crab’s hard shell.
• The Ise Mantis used its supersonic speed to evade the claw and keep attacking, delivering thousands of blows.
• The Ise Mantis’s alloy limb blades snapped, and it fled while shielding its abdomen.
• Ian stopped Little White from attacking and recognized that the Ise Mantis was a mother.

Ian defeated Sashado’s mutated Ise Mantis, shrank it with the Small Light, and captured it in a cage of light. Sashado gave Ian the mantis and abandoned his Host Body, but warned that he would keep fighting humanity.

• Ian calmed the White Stone Crab and approached the injured Ise Mantis, noticing that it had become a mother after its mutation.
• Ian used the Small Light to shrink the Ise Mantis, then trapped it in a cage of light.
• Ian asked Sashado to give him the Ise Mantis, and Sashado erased the mantis mark from his arm to release his control over it.
• Sashado warned Ian that he would not stop fighting humanity and said he would find a thing that could threaten all humans.
• Sashado let his Host Body fade away, saying he was sick of the body and Ian could have it.

After Sashado vanished, Ian kept a fragment of his Host Body and brought the captured Ise Mantis along as the Hunters withdrew. On the way back, he discovered he could use the fragment to call a dark red butterfly, suggesting he might control creatures linked to Sashado’s imprints.

• Ian examined and pocketed a fragment of Sashado’s Host Body, while Netero said it might offer clues about its imprints.
• Netero decided the Hunters could not pursue Sashado, and Ian warned them that his Host Bodies were too dangerous to confront.
• Ian enlarged the light cage holding the injured Ise Mantis after Cat Teacher advised him to give it more space and nourishment.
• As the group left the wetlands, Ian, Netero, and Zeno discussed Sashado’s claim about a mysterious thing he was seeking.
• Ian spotted a dark red butterfly, matched its color to markings on the imprint fragment, and used the fragment to make it flutter toward him.
• Ian called Jikeya over to look at the butterfly.

Ian and the others returned from the wetlands after he claimed the mutated Hell Butterfly and Netero announced his resignation as Hunter Association Chairman. Ian brought Zeno to Sharku Manor, where Milluki greeted him from a green UFO.

• Jikeya identified the butterfly as a rare Hell Butterfly, and Ian made it perch on his shoulder after remembering it had mutated.
• Ian led the group through the Anywhere Door back to the city, where Netero thanked him and Cat Teacher for defeating Sashado's Host Body.
• Netero announced that he would step down as Hunter Association Chairman to focus on practicing his punches.
• Zeno invited Ian to visit Kukuroo Mountain, and Ian invited Zeno to come home with him instead.
• Ian and Zeno arrived at Sharku Manor, and Milluki flew over in a green UFO and called out to his grandfather.